Word: portes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blackball an agent administratively so that he cannot work again as an informer. When the phrase "to terminate with extreme prejudice" is used, it often becomes the cloak-and-dagger code for extermination. In June, just such an execution order reached a U.S. Special Forces outfit in a port city of South Viet Nam. Seven Green Beret officers and one enlisted man helped to carry it out. The upshot was their arrest and detention pending investigation. Last week, as the Army maintained total silence and a host of rumors swirled through offices and bars in Saigon, Washington and Green Beret...
...Ranh Bay has long been hailed as proof of American determination to stay in Viet Nam. Swiftly constructed at a cost of more than $100 million by Army engineers in the heady days of the 1965-66 buildup, the complex has 70 miles of roads, a jet airfield, a port handling ocean freighters and one of the Army's largest supply depots anywhere. Cam Ranh Bay was considered so safe that Lyndon Johnson paid two visits there...
...Senate Finance Committee investigators did not allege overcharging by Polansky-but in drawing attention to his unusually large payments, they seemed to be implying that the doctor was bilking the Government. Actually, Polansky, no Cadillac-and-country-club doctor, has practiced for 21 years in the grubby Lake Michigan port of Benton Harbor. His dilapidated office is above a clothing store on West Main Street. Working with him are three full-time assistants...
...United Nations observers stationed along the canal, became the second U.N. officer to die since the outbreak of hostilities 25 months ago; an earlier death occurred during the 1967 fighting in Syria. Major Plane was killed by an Israeli shell fragment at his observation post near Port Tewfik on the Egyptian side of the canal. The post had already sustained several near misses and one direct hit that blew a hole in a wall, just a few yards from the observers' living quarters. When firing began again, Plane and a Chilean colonel moved to a window to take...
Within two weeks after set sail the London Sunday Times's round-the-world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst's 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing on the boom snapped, the port forward hatch sprang a leak, and then his generator went out, leaving him without electricity for three days. While his boat disintegrated with the pounding of heavy seas, the sailor's sanity, strained as it was by the loneliness of the solo odyssey and haunted by the specter of fail ure, also began to fall apart...